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CHAPTER VII. 



BUDS AND RAMIFICATION. 



Branches of the stem first make their appearance as buds. 

 These as a rule do not appear indiscriminately but at certain 

 definite parts of the plant, viz., at the extremities of the stem 



IFiG. 88.— «, terminal 

 bud ; 3, axillary 

 bud, the leaf ^ in 

 the axil of which 

 it was produced 

 having been re- 

 moved. 



Fig. 89. —Diagram of a longitudinal section of the 

 apex of the stem of a dicotyledonous plant ; wr, 

 pith, ; /y fibro-vascular bundles, both developed 

 from the pleurome (^^, the bundles sendmg 

 branches to the leaves ; r, corticle tissue ; e, epi- 

 dermis ; by b, youn^; leaves, two showing their 

 origin from protomeristem (/) ; kn, axillary bud. 

 (After Prantl.) 



and branches, when they are called terminal buds ; and in the 

 axils of the leaves, that is to say, the angle formed between 

 the leaf and the stem, when they are termed axillary buds. 



